Marcellino Pipite is a Vanuatuan politician and former school administration, who was first elected to Parliament in 2004.
He was the foreign minister of Vanuatu[1] from November 2004 until December 2004, in the government of Serge Vohor.
On October 10, 2015, while serving as acting President, he pardoned himself and 13 other MPs who the Supreme Court had found guilty of bribery.
[4] President Baldwin Lonsdale, returning to Vanuatu hours after Pipite's pardon has been issued, declared that nobody is above the law and revoked the pardon, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court of Vanuatu.
Sentencing on the bribery charges went ahead and Pipite was jailed for 3 years, together with most of the other convicted MPs.